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Water Quality Monitoring in the Source Water Areas for NYC
PHASE I Monitoring Sites


Site 16 - East Kill near Jewett Center - SCHESTKL - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.242467
Longitude(dd): -74.310366
Watershed Area: 93.1 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.08% 10.27% 88.90% 0.75% 1.14%
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1990
2000

Total Population

676
749
Population Density (ind./km2)
7.26
8.05
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
3
3
3
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.03 cm
0.01 cm
0.01 cm

Ions, Nutrients, DOC/BDOC, and Particulates - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharge (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Ions/Nutr & DOC/BDOC
Organic Particles
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
08AUG00
0.5400
08AUG00
0.5400
2001
25JUL01
0.1111
25JUL01
0.1111
2002
17JUL02
0.1135
17JUL02
0.1135

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.8   7.1   8.2  
ALKL 16   20   19  
COND 56   75   79  
CA 5.7   .   .  
MG 1   1.2   1.3  
NA 3.4   4.9   5.2  
K 0.4 B 0.5   0.5  
CL 4.3   8   7.8  
SO4 4.5   5.2   5.3  
NH4N 0.005 B 0.011   0.005 B
NO3N 0.2   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.06   0.05   0.1  
SKN 0.07 B 0.06   0.1  
TKN 0.09 B 0.07   0.09 B
SRP 0.003   0 B 0.003  
TDP 0.004 B 0.004 B 0.005 B
TP 0.005 B 0.005 B 0.005 B
DOC 1338   1093   1151  
BDOC .   185   146  
TSS 2.5   0.9 B 1.4  
TSS05 1.9   0.7   1.5  
TSS10 0.5   0.1 B 0.2  
TSS20 0.06   0.2 B 0.3 B
VSS 0.8   0.4   0.4  
VSS05 0.6   0.3 B 0.4  
VSS10 0.2   0.05 B 0.06 B
VSS20 0.014   0.07 B 0.08 B

 

Molecular Tracer Analysis - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharges (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Summer Baseflow
Winter Baseflow
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
08AUG00
0.5400
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2001
30JUL01
0.1480
21FEB01
1.5963
2002
16JUL02
0.1135
13FEB02
2.0164
2003    
28JAN03
0.3362

Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.0005 E 0 NE 0.0005 E 0.019 E
PHE 0.0011 HE 0.002 HE 0.001 E 0.0015 E 0.002 E 0.03  
ANT 0.00011 E 0 E 0.0003 E 0 NE 0.0003 E 0.005 E
2MP 0.0007   0.0015 HE 0.005 E 0.0013 E 0.0005 E 0.01 E
1MP 0 NE 0.0007 HE 0.0002 E 0 NE 0.00018 E 0.005 E
FLR 0.0003 HE 0.0003 HE 0.0003 E 0.0009 E 0.004 E 0.003 E
PYR 0.0005   0.0003   0 NE 0.0003 E 0.0007 E 0.002 E
BAA 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.0005 E 0.0003 E 0.0002 E 0 NE
CHR 0 NE 0.00018 HE 0.00003 E 0 NE 0.0004 E 0 NE
BBF 0 NE 0.00014 HE 0.00019 E 0 NE 0.0006 E 0.0003 E
BKF 0 NE 0.0004 HE 0.00003 E 0.0007 E 0.0006 E 0.00017 E
BAP 0 NE 0.0004   0 NE 0.0005 E 0.0005 E 0.0003 E
HHCB 0.002   0 NE 0.002 E 0.003 E 0.002 E 0.013  
AHTN 0.0016 HE 0 NE 0.004 E 0.0004 E 0.004 E 0.007 E
CAF 0.0014 HE 0.0019   0 NE 0 NE 0.004 E 0 NE
bCOP 0.01   0.011   0.004 E 0.0015 E 0.011 E 0.006 E
EPI 0 NE 0.007 HE 0.0004 E 0 NE 0.0014 E 0.0018 E
CHO 0.3   0.08   0.2   0.1   0.3   0.1  
aCOP 0.05   0.017   0.03   0.02   0.07   0.013  
aONE 0 NE 0.003 HE 0.004 E 0.013 E 0.008 E 0.018 E
bONE 0.004 HE 0.02 HE 0.009   0.018   0.017 E 0.04  
SNOL 0.03 HE 0.03   0.02   0.04   0.04   0.02  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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